transitive. To take away, do away with, destroy; also, to take up, appropriate by encroachment.

transitive. To drive out or away (a disease, etc.); to dispel; to efface, obliterate; to do away with, get rid of. Obsolete.

transitive. To pluck out or up by the root; to root out, eradicate, exterminate.

transitive. figurative. To eradicate, clear out, remove altogether.

transitive. To obliterate, destroy; to erase, efface, rub out.

transitive. To pull up; to pull (a thing) out of the place in which it is planted or set; to uproot; to eradicate; to raze, demolish. Cf. sense 4a…

To pull or tear away, pull up.

Chiefly with away: To remove forcibly or as at one blow from its position or status, or out of existence; to do away with, destroy utterly.

transitive. To destroy, cut off. Obsolete.

transitive. To destroy, extirpate, eradicate; to do away with, get rid of, by a destructive process. Obsolete.

To purge oneself from, purge, expiate, atone for. (From 1 2.) archaic.

transitive. To put out of the way, get rid of. Obsolete.

transitive. To deprive of a top. Also figurative.

figurative. To root up, eradicate.

Of water, the tide, etc.: to lift up, or support on its surface (anything buoyant); to bear (anything buoyant) along by the force of the current…

transitive. Esp. of a disease or other cause of death: to kill, to ‘carry off’.

transitive. To remove forcibly; to do away with.

figurative. To remove as by tearing up; to eradicate, exterminate, destroy.

To remove entirely, extirpate, get rid of.

transitive. = to lay aside at phrasal verbs; †also = to lay aside at phrasal verbs.

transitive. colloquial. to polish off: to complete or consume quickly or easily (cf. sense 1d); to get rid of, destroy, or kill.

transitive. To pull or tear up; to uproot.

transitive. To reduce to zero; to eliminate, remove; to omit, leave out. Cf. sense 5.